{"nrhp_refnum":"87001640","name":"Oliver, Dr. William Holt, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"602 W. Twenty-sixth","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bryan","county":"Brazos County","state":"TX","lat":30.67452495300006,"lon":-96.37872291999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-09-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2 1/2-story frame Classical Revival house at 602 W. 26th Street in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, built about 1904-1905 by the Parker Lumber Co. for Dr. William Holt Oliver.","why_significant":"The house shows a Classical Revival design that departs from strict symmetry and conventional use of classical motifs, with paired, dissimilar giant-order columns not aligned with the off-center entrance. It is also tied to Dr. Oliver, credited as a leader in founding Bryan's first hospital in 1913, which later became St. Joseph's Hospital.","narrative":"Dr. William Holt Oliver had this two-and-a-half-story frame house built at 602 W. 26th Street in Bryan, Texas, around 1904-1905. The Parker Lumber Co. served as contractor, and William Nash is listed as architect or builder. Designed in the Classical Revival style, it has a hip roof with gables, wood double-hung windows, and a nine-bay porch wrapping the south, east and west sides. A full-height entry portico carries paired fluted Ionic columns and box columns with Ionic capitals, topped by a gabled dormer with a Palladian motif. Leaded glass fills the door, sidelights and transom. The design shows a move away from strict symmetry, since the paired columns do not line up with the off-center entrance. The house is also linked to medicine in Bryan. In 1913 Dr. Oliver is credited as a leader in founding the city's first hospital, which he financed and staffed on West 28th Street. It later expanded and in 1954 became St. Joseph's Hospital. The house was in good condition and still residential when surveyed.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Nash, William (architect/builder); Parker Lumber Co. (contractor)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition and in residential use at the time of the 1986 survey.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.044431-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/99/9684/40968499/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/87001640.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001640/b823d75b2e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001640/b823d75b2e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr_william_holt_oliver_house_2014.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr_william_holt_oliver_house_2014.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968499","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001701"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/brazos-county/oliver-dr-william-holt-house-87001640/"}